Ebay liability

[Kos]

If I enter an extortionate bid price (like a lot of other people are) to stop Live 8 tickets being sold on Ebay, how do I avoid been liable to pay the amount?

(I don't want to use my proper Ebay id as I will obviously get bad feedback from sellers!!)

[mattie]

According to what I heard on the news today, people are already doing just that, bidding ridiculous amounts of money, knowing that they can't possibly pay,�10,000,000 seems to be a popular bid, making the lotteries impossible to win. I don't think that they are concerned about negative feedback.

[j2buttonsw]

As a seller you can simply delete the spurious bids or sell them off line.

[gerry]

Sorry Kos but why would you do something like this.It's not an illegal thing that these people are doing.All of a sudden because the word "Charity" is used it seems to be a bad thing to do.

If i was selling 2 tickets which cost me nothing to a Film Premier would you still think the same way?.

At the end of the day there is no difference.

[gerry]

I just looked at an auction on ebay where somebody was selling 2 Tickets to live 8.The starting price was 99p it's not as if the starting price was �1000.There will have been people that put a bid in that auction because they wanted to go & then you get people like you Kos who go & spoil it by entering a sky high price.

Why ruin it for others.What gives you the right?

[Sammy Snake]

Maybe these people who are selling are doing so for a valid reason.  Maybe they sent loads of texts in and won more than one pair of tickets, they could be simply trying to recover the money they spent on the texts.

Even though I didn't want to go,  I did consider the idea myself of trying to obtain tickets and then selling them on ebay (I never actually applied) and can't see what's wrong with it. 

[mystress]

Kos,

I am sorry,but if you read the blurb on E~Bay you will see that by bidding you enter into a Legal Contract with the seller,so if you are not serious,don't bid(for whatever reason).

I don't blame the seller for selling these tickets,but blame E~Bay for allowing them to be sold!

Saying they are giving the (probably minute) E~Bay comission to Charity smacks of hypocrisy to me!

[Hippy]

eBay have now pulled Live8 ticket sales. I suspect this is because of the Geldof-esque huffing and puffing having a negative "feedback" for eBay rather than any moral scales falling from their eyes.

[MargeB]

Wow, it was something else to hear Geldof talking about Ebay 'They think they're separate from the rest of us, so the people smacked them down, good on them'. Hear hear.

Still lost on why its wrong to sell them on, though. Just because you're subsequently making money, having 'paid' just as much as everyone else to the charity? Is it not that all forms of CAPITALISM are under attack now (G8) etc, and this is just another form of it, in their minds? As a matter of principle, it's a bit of a joke, and not the place to start. Start with the huge number of 'African charities' in the UK, which are supposedly 'non-profit', even though a large chunk of your hard earned donation goes not to some poor starving guy in Africa, but towards the mortgage of some fat-guy-in-suit who 'helps run it'. Haven't heard Sir Bob slam them down.